Dario Milo
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199204922
- eISBN:
- 9780191709449
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199204922.003.0002
- Subject:
- Law, Law of Obligations, Human Rights and Immigration
This chapter explores the meaning and legal significance of reputation, and the values underpinning the right. The chapter proceeds as follows. Part B discusses the nature and legal protection of ...
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This chapter explores the meaning and legal significance of reputation, and the values underpinning the right. The chapter proceeds as follows. Part B discusses the nature and legal protection of reputation in the principal jurisdictions considered. Part C examines the underlying values that reputation appears designed to serve. Part D concludes the discussion and argues that ventilating the values underlying reputation will assist in deciding the proper approach to be adopted when reputation must be balanced against freedom of expression.Less
This chapter explores the meaning and legal significance of reputation, and the values underpinning the right. The chapter proceeds as follows. Part B discusses the nature and legal protection of reputation in the principal jurisdictions considered. Part C examines the underlying values that reputation appears designed to serve. Part D concludes the discussion and argues that ventilating the values underlying reputation will assist in deciding the proper approach to be adopted when reputation must be balanced against freedom of expression.
